Photos are well good, particularly love the Sea Gull caught in flight, even though I find seagulls to be a bit annoying, but that's only because the ones in Glasgow are like Street Urchins, hunting for food, shitting on you by accident, and generally laughing smuggly above our humans head, because we cannot fly.

The man that cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot~Andre Breton~

Many a clever boy is flogged into a dunce and many an original composition corrected into mediocrity- Sir Walter Scott

Who has the courage to go into the dark places where there is nothing but feeling? - Thomas A. Clark

I'm a hyper-survivalist: when I walk past a Cemetery I hold my breath - Gamer

the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing. - Charles Bukowski

For everything that is hidden will eventually be brought into the open and every secret should be brought to the light anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand - Mark 4:22-23

If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.

your cousin wrote:I absolutely agree with you! Film will never die, and I shall never convert. I am not a supporter of this photography reformation. Digital is good for some things but you cant beat film.

These are all wonderful shots. But better than digital? I don't think so. Let me qualify my remarks....

What is true, is that digital, despite the claims, cannot match Medium or large format film cameras in resolving powert, although even that gap is closing.

There is another difference, which no Hot Dog buns is correct on. There is more dynamic range in B&W film than any digital camera out there. What this means, is that from White to Black, film can capture more of the highlights and shadows than digital can. A photographer would call this a two stop advantage. While this is also true of color, no one can notice this difference in color film vs digital. For color, the advantage is less than half a stop, while it shows up clearly in certain examples of B&W photography.

Finally, this difference between the formats is rapidly vanishing. Within twenty years digital will probably surpass film, which is not to say that film will disappear. There will always be those who like the "feel" of film better.

I've shot film for over forty years, and digital for twelve. On photography boards that I post on, I'm usually defending film from claims that digital is "better." Forgive my sin for attacking film...

The Narcissist exists whereby every activity and relationship is defined by the hedonistic need to acquire the symbols of spiritual wealth, this becoming the only expression of rigid, yet covert, social hierarchies. It is a culture where liberalism only exists insofar as it serves a consumer society, and even art, sex and religion lose their liberating power."